1.stop; halt; come to a halt[standstill]. 2 stay (at/with); remain. ¢Ò As he
was leaving, we stopped[detained] him.
¢Ò ¡¤We will retain[keep] you in your present position.
I wont keep you any longer. ¡¤ ¢Ò I dont want to stay in this city.
3. It seems that the custom is confined to this area. ¢Ò The conference did no
more than point out some problems
[list some points at issue]./The conference confined itself to listing some
points at issue.
This is not all he has done.
(a) repetition; a repeat; iteration; reiteration;
epistrophe; anaphora; a refrain; a burden. ¢Ò ¡ repetitious/repetitive.
He is only repeating himself, though in different terms.
There is too much repetition in this song. ¡ repeat; iterate; reiterate; do over again.
¢Ò ¡ repeatedly/over again/again and again.
¢¹palingenesis. ¢¹the recapitulation theory. ¢¹a repeat test. ¢¹repeated practice.
¢Ò ¡practice repeatedly.
fickleness; flightiness; inconstancy; inconsistency; variableness;repeated switching (of ones opinion[decision]).
¡switch[shift] again and again. ¢¹inconstancy; instability.